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  1. Upon the Absent Beloved

    I bless the hour, though it wounded me,
    when first my eyes were taught to look and grieve,
    and every joy I thought my heart could weave
    was turned to golden thread of misery.

    For Beauty came, and with her majesty
    made captive all I had believed was free;
    yet in that chain my soul learned how to see
    the heaven hidden in captivity.

    O gentle light, too distant to be mine,
    you burn within me like a sacred flame;
    I flee from you, yet follow all the same.

    Thus love makes bitter water into wine:
    I die of longing, yet I live by this—
    the wound itself has taught my heart its bliss.

    Author’s Note: My attempts at a poem in the style of Petrarch

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